Occupy Seattle Stands With Port Truck Workers

Occupy Seattle’s General Assembly met on 3/22/2012 and agreed through consensus on this statement and committed to further action on behalf of port truck workers: Since the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which gave collective bargaining rights to some workers and legalized part of the labor movement in the United States, large populations of workers, such as farmworkers, domestic laborers, and port truck drivers (currently classified as “independent contractors”) have been left in the cold.